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Mears works in partnership with social housing clients to maintain, repair and upgrade the homes of hundreds of thousands of people in communities, from remote rural villages to large inner-city estates.

Nestlé is the world’s leading nutrition, health and wellness company, producing some of Britain’s best-loved brands such as Kit Kat, Nescafé and Buxton. They export over £260m worth of products every year to over 50 countries.

The GEAB is one of the UK’s leading independent commercial energy consultancies, with clients from many sectors including charities/not-for-profit organisations, education providers, the public sector, SMEs to multi-nationals all benefitting from a full end-to-end service.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, to enable their customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

We are grateful to all our corporate supporters who enable us to make a real difference for people and wildlife across the region. If you’d like to see your company’s name added to this list of leading North East businesses please contact our Development Team on (0191) 284 6884 or mail@northwt.org.uk.

Corporate members Nestlé have been working with NWT for a number of years including sponsorship of the North East Wildlife Photography Competition and working with our People and Wildlife teams an exciting project to engage staff and their families and encourage native wildlife to return to the Fawdon factory site. Volunteers working on our new Hauxley Wildlife Discovery Centre were also ‘fuelled’ by monthly supplies of free biscuits from Nestlé Read the full story here.

Northumbrian Water have demonstrated their commitment to local wildlife by donating two vehicles to the Trust, delivering training to NWT staff and sponsoring a conservation post a Kielder. As part of Northumbrian Water's Just An Hour volunteering programme, six employees recently spent five hours working alongside people from the Environment Agency and Northumberland Wildlife Trust clearing stretches of the banks of the burn and litter picking. Read the full story here.

We are delighted to continue to receive fantastic support through our high profile partnership with People’s Postcode Lottery. To date players of People's Postcode Lottery have raised £919,940 and provided a unique platform for boosting awareness as well as contributing vital funds for our work.

Tarmac Ltd are long-term supporters of the Trust and have previously sponsored a number of special events including helping to celebrate the Trust’s 40th Anniversary as well as working in partnership to develop a schools biodiversity award programme.

Social housing and maintenance company Mears stepped in to help the Trust following an arson attack which destroyed our visitor centre and observation hide at Hauxley. Mears cleared the site of the burned out building and converted and fitted out the disused toilet block into a temporary visitor centre saving the Trust around £8,000.

Many thanks to Gustharts, bronze category members for the past 12 years, for its donation of a set of STIHL HSA 25 cordless shrub shears, designed for trimming shrubs, but which were put to good use on the Hauxley Build Project giving straw bales a haircut before the walls were plastered.

Silver Anniversary Thanks

Blyth Harbour Commission, Harlow Printing Ltd, Northumbrian Water Ltd and The Banks Group have now been corporate members for over 25 years. We'd like to say a huge thank you for all their support over the years.

The Wildlife Trusts have been working with Ribena and their blackcurrant growers since 2004 to help wildlife by providing habitat in and around the blackcurrant fields used to grow fruit for Ribena. This includes planting trees and hedges, leaving field margins and providing nest boxes.

Vine House Farm are one of the UK’s leading bird food manufacturers. They grow the vast majority of their bird food on their conservation award-winning farm in south Lincolnshire and donate 5% of the value of any order to the customer's local Wildlife Trust. Read moreVine House Farm recently picked up the 'Charity Partnership Small Business Award' for its achievements and the impacts its partnership with the UK’s 47 Wildlife Trusts, including Northumberland Wildlife Trust, is having on wildlife in this country. Read the full story here.